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October-December, 2012

Applying the Rules for Decision

by Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C.

For the past five years, a water conditioning company has placed us in a collection agency trying to collect a fee from us for a service we haven’t used in the five years and which we have asked them to take back their equipment. Each time we get a notice from the collection agency, I initially panic and imagine myself being carted off to a prison or having my husband’s wages garnished. Oh what vain imaginings the ego constructs to keep us in fear and separation.

I also noticed how, in the ego thought system, I was projecting blame onto this water company. From a split dualistic mind, ego tries to make someone right and someone wrong. Of course, it wants me to believe, they are wrong and I am right. That way, I don’t have to look at the hidden guilt in me. And if I keep projecting it onto them, that cloud of guilt in me will never be lifted and God’s Light and Love will remain hidden from me.

From a fearful place, the ego seeks fearful solutions and wants punishment for the guilty party. So from this place, I focused out there in the illusion for a way to solve this problem. I sought legal help and the more I wanted to punish them and make them guilty, the more I was really punishing myself because I wasn’t at peace. In fact, I was at war — not with them, but in myself. It didn’t feel good and the body played it out in all kinds of painful symptoms. In trying to defend myself, I ended up crucifying myself. Lawyers became my false idols because I was seeking them out to help me win the war against a perceived enemy. I was shutting God out, and isn’t this what ego stands for — edging God out?

I remember there was a section in ACIM that talked about the Rules for Decision: Chapter 30 Section I. So I went there because after five years of trying to solve this from Linda’s own separate will, I knew there had to be a better way. So, rule number one states:

“Today I will make no decisions by myself” …This means that you are choosing not to be the judge of what to do.” (T- 30.I:2;2,3)

In Linda’s attempt to judge on her own, she not only judged but became her own executioner.

“If I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given me.” (4:2)

Holy Spirit, I would rather be happy than right. I want peace above all. When I chose on my own that I wanted to be right; the days were filled with anguish, not peace.

“I have no question. I forgot what to decide.” (6:4)

Oh Holy Spirit, I didn’t step back and ask you first; I tried to decide on my own what was going on and tried to come up with a solution from my own separate will, a will that believed it was in danger in the world and that the source of this danger was the water company.

“At least I can decide I do not like what I feel now.” (8:2)

Oh, Holy Spirit, I don’t like feeling fearful and anxious and worried.

“And so I hope I have been wrong.” (9:2)

Oh, Holy Spirit, I realize that on my own, I will never solve the problem peacefully because in this separate mind, I judge everything to be a conflict. I seem to be a victim of a world I made in this separate mind, a mind that believes everyone is my enemy and there is no room for love.

“I want another way to look at this.” (11:4)

Dear Holy Spirit: I am willing to open this mind and am willing to be shown a better way. I am willing to choose peace instead of this pain.

“Perhaps there is another way to look at this. What can I lose by asking?” (12:3,4)

Holy Spirit, I come to you and ask you to help me see this differently and I am in gratitude that you are there waiting for me to give you my willingness.

In the instant I sought Holy Spirit’s help to see this differently, I was given the following image:

The water company, the collection agency, the lawyer, my husband and myself were all standing in a circle of light which was pouring down on all of us. We were all drinking from a beautiful cup of water that we passed around. It was an endless supply of pure delicious water. Then I heard myself shout: La Chiam, which in Hebrew means Life. There was so much joy. Each on of us then lifted the cup upwards to God shouting our praises and La Chiam.

This image given to me by Spirit showed me that God is Life, there is no hatred in the Kingdom of Heaven. All is Love, all is Light. There is no separation; there is no law but the law of Love that joins all of us in a circle of life, a circle of Love. I no longer felt hatred towards the water company; I no longer felt scared or that I was a victim or in danger.

For the first time in the five years of dealing with this issue with the water company; I was at peace and in joy as a result of practicing following the rules of decision as laid out in ACIM.

In fact, that is a decision I now willingly make. Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, be willing to seek guidance from the Holy Spirit first. Holy Spirit helped me to see the truth of the situation. As a result, peace was given and I experienced joy. Doesn’t Holy Spirit guarantee the outcome will be a happy one when we ask to be shown the truth? Isn’t that God’s Will for us, His Children, that we be happy?

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